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Late last week, two members of the World of Warcraft art team took part in a live stream event. Senior 3D Animator Ian Lang and 3D Artist Kenny McBride “discuss the wizardry behind World of Warcraft’s art development and animation”.
The World of Warcraft Classic forum has a new “blue post” from the team about what it has been working on most recently. “The feedback we got from the demo was fantastic.” The team has been spending the intervening months culling through demo feedback compiled by community members and “wanted to share a few anecdotes with you so you can see how we’re tracking these issues”. Anecdotes include health regeneration, Warlock demon summoning and high-priority bug fixes.
The alarm has sounded, the light has changed from red to green and you are standing on the drop ramp. Your squad gets the “jump!” command and you go all out with rocket boosters forcing you to the ground more quickly than a freefall. You touch down on the landing platform and begin to scour for weapons, all the while enemy squads are doing the same. This is our review for Apex Legends.
This week’s Camelot Unchained newsletter has arrived, this time with a pretty cool article called “Putting the Pieces Together” In it, Ben Pielstick writes about seemingly large jumps in the development of the game that are actually the result of weeks, or even months, of behind-the-scenes development. That is the place Camelot Unchained is in at the moment, with some big pieces that have all come together and have been integrated into the game, seemingly a HUGE LEAP of progress.
In the world of gaming chairs, things can start to feel a little… similar. Between different companies, the designs are so close, you’re left wondering whether many are made in the same factory and stamped with a different brand name. And that’s because they are. Today, we’re looking at an ultra-premium gaming chair with the LFGaming Stealth. What do you get with a $1395 gaming chair? Let’s find out.
In new paperwork filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, Activision Blizzard has warned investors that restructuring may have “negative consequences” on the business and that “there can be no assurance that our business will be more efficient or effective than prior to implementation of the plan”.
The Neverwinter site has a pair of new blog posts that detail “dramatic changes” coming with the Undermountain expansion. The goal of the Cleric changes is to make “healing more significant than ever”. For Paladins, alterations “will make healing more significant than ever and change tanking dramatically”.
With today’s start of the Population Zero alpha test, Enplex Games has sent out a brand new video to showcase Building Mechanics as they are found in the game.
It is almost a week on from the announcement that staff lay-offs were coming to Guild Wars 2 publisher, ArenaNet. As I begin to look back on the fall out of a pretty catastrophic wipe, Thursday morning is creeping up on me, and it seems like an appropriate time to sit and take stock of everything that has happened.
We know it’s not Friday, but the latest Star Citizen: Around the Verse is already out and about so we figured why not? In this week’s episode, Character Art Director Josh Herman and LA Studio Director Eric Kieron Davis take center stage to chat up “Area 18’s spaceport and take a look at improvements to gimballed weapons as well as get the scoop on the MISC Reliant variants coming in Alpha 3.5”.